Far from Vietnam

• Loin du Vietnam
• Documentary, War
• France
• 1967
• Director: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Claude Lelouch, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard
• 115 min
• 35mm
• Original Version with english Subtitles
• with Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson

In 1967, as a reaction to the Vietnam War and the media coverage of it, mostly French directors and one female director formed a group that wanted to show in a collective film how this war, supposedly far away in the Far East, affects their consciousness. The result was a compilation of several documentary and fictional short films, each of which became a sign of passionate protest in its own right, but even more so as a whole. A film-historically highly interesting example of how politically engaged cinema can nevertheless produce highly individual contributions.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Institut Français.